The Discover Feed, which is intended to provide users with personalized headlines and interesting topics, can be found at more and more places in the Google network. In addition to the linked articles, users should also be able to find the current weather there, at least they keep trying. Now the weather widget has appeared again in a small form for some users.
Google’s designers and product managers sometimes turn the simplest of things into a science: For a long time, the Discover Feed featured a weather indicator placed right between the Google logo and the headlines. From 2020 onwards, this disappeared again and again or showed incorrect data. It was later scaled down, the weather forecast removed, and then again trimmed down to just one. That wasn’t really helpful, so it was completely saved from 2021.
Now the weather display is back, as you can see from the screenshots above. This time again in a larger form including location, cloud situation and a slightly larger icon. There are still no forecasts, but a tap leads directly to the web search with the search query “weather”. If you actually give the weather this space permanently, you could certainly accommodate a lot more information there.
Of course, it is questionable how useful it is to display the current weather without a forecast. Especially since the feed has tended to list older articles (+2 days) for a long time. When looking for the weather in the next few hours, there is now the weather with the headlines from the day before yesterday.